Yes!!!!!!!!

No guarantee of any return to prem anytime soon.

No guarantee of finishing in the top 6 with loss of players due to relegation

Just not worth thinking about until it is mathematically possible we could get relegated

Which I don’t think will happen - anyway

I've always thought the academy was likely to be of more use to the club if we were relegated but as the clubs generally slash spending and staff I wonder how that would work.

The new stand would be the first thing for the chop I would imagine.

It wouldn't be such a bad idea. At least, not unless you want to see your team playing in the top division.

If you are happy with relegation, and watching your team playing against less proficient players, and having less proficient players in your team shortly after relegation, you really shouldn't be *supporting* any team, of any sport. You would want your team to be at the top of the top division. And to get to the top of the top division, you have to be in it.

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

I feel we are always a feeder club... produce talent that turns a profit... I don't mind us being a stepping stone.. for me, it's about enjoyment... I haven't enjoyed palace for a long, long time.

This was once a quality forum....

I remember it well - the year I moved to London to work and started watching and eventually supporting Palace. If my memory serves me right, I think that was against Blackpool in October; we were leading 1-0 as we entered injury time and seemed to be heading for our first win of the season in something like our 10th game; those two late goals shattered us.

We got our first win in December 4-2 - can't remember against who but I do remember my mate got so carried away when the third goal went in that he ran onto the pitch at Whitehorse Lane end and was escorted from the ground by police and so missed the fourth goal. He waited for me outside (I had the car) and on the way home we had to pinch ourselves to believe we had actually won that game.

In a nutshell Yes. Only one place to go from the Championship and that is back to the Premiership. No amount of experience in that league is going to help a team higher up. You can have a great season like Burnley and still really struggle.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld